Nature Quotes

Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from nature.

Everything in the world-trees, rocks, and stars and human beings-they all have there own true music.

All Nature wears one universal grin.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I just come and talk to the plants, really—very important to talk to them, they respond I find.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature, and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.

Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in perspective.

The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.

Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.  It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. 

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Evil can't be scientifically defined. It's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. It's origins and connotations have been inextricably linked to religion and mythology.

What does reason know? Reasons knows only what it has managed to learn, while human nature acts as an entire whole, with everything that is in it, consciously and unconsciously, and though it lies, still it lives.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horridly cruel works of nature!

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

‘What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones and Meridian lines?’
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply,
‘They are merely conventional signs!’

It's as large as life, and twice as natural!